In light of the unprecedented and uncertain times that the hospitality industry is currently experiencing we have made the difficult but necessary decision to hit pause on the Appetite for Excellence awards for this year. As our industry navigates these unchartered...

Applications for Appetite for Excellence 2020 Young Chef, Young Waiter and Young Restaurateur, Australia’s most prestigious awards for young hospitality talent, are now open.  Founded in 2005 by Luke Mangan OAM and Lucy Allon, Appetite for Excellence is Australia’s...

Shui Ishizaka, our Appetite for Excellence 2017 Young Chef, visited Sydney recently as part of Thomas Frebel’s Good Food Month collaboration with Clayton Wells at Wells' two-hat restaurant, Automata. Working under Peter Gilmore at Bennelong Sydney when he entered and...

Friday, 22 November 2019 Luke Mangan OAM announced today that The Inspired Series, a program of inspirational and motivational talks for the industry by the industry, will host its very first international event in New York City, in collaboration with the Australian...

Exclusive Inspired Series World Gourmet Symposium Event for WA Hospitality Students with world culinary leaders Marco Pierre White, Josh Niland and Kylie Javier Ashton As part of the hugely successful WA Gourmet Escape presented by Westpac, The World Gourmet Symposium...

Matty Opai, Bar Manager at Icebergs Dining Room and Bar in Bondi, NSW won this year’s Perrier Aperitivo – Create an Icon competition with his take on a light, fresh and flavoursome aperitif that is easy to replicate at home - the Vergèze Spring Time - using Perrier...

The 2019 Appetite for Excellence winners were announced tonight at an awards ceremony at Glass Brasserie, Hilton Sydney. Now in its fourteenth year, the national awards program continues to attract the best of Australia’s food industry each year, to celebrate and...

Luke Mangan OAM, chef restaurateur and founder of The Inspired Series will be joined by Australia’s top chefs and restaurateurs at Luke’s Kitchen, 8 Danks Street, Waterloo on Wednesday, 7 August 2019 for industry-focused talks aimed at inspiring hospitality students...

Appetite for Excellence, the ultimate national awards program which fosters the next generation of hospitality professionals, has today announced the 2019 national finalists, after a rigorous judging process. The finalists were chosen by a prestigious panel made up of...

Maggie Beer, one of Australia’s most loved food identities, will be the first guest speaker for Luke Mangan’s 2019 The Inspired Series program, to be held on Wednesday, 10 April 2019 at 9:30am at Luke’s Kitchen, Sydney. Maggie Beer will chat to Luke about her career...

Applications for Appetite for Excellence 2019 are now opened.

Luke Mangan has been awarded with the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM).